GeForce 940M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce 940M was 2015's volume discrete GPU — the chip that gave mainstream and business laptops a graphics line beyond integrated without asking much of the budget or the battery. The catalog has benchmarked it in 84 games at 1080p across 10 matched models.

Where the 940M sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 6.2 — 268th of 341 scored mobile GPUs, in the table's bottom fifth. Its neighbors are almost entirely integrated graphics a decade its junior: the Iris Pro Graphics 6200 (6.5) above, the Radeon Pro WX 4150 (6.2) level, and the GeForce 840M (5.8) below. A dedicated chip now trading punches with 2015-era Iris Pro iGPUs is the honest summary — it was barely ahead of contemporaries on day one, and integrated silicon has long since caught and passed it.

What the chip brings

The GM107 die on 28 nm Maxwell: 384 shader cores, 2 GB of DDR3 on a 64-bit bus with 14 GB/s of bandwidth — a tenth of what entry gaming chips carried even then — a 1098 MHz boost clock and roughly 0.9 TFLOPS. CUDA support is its one enduring utility for older video and photo workflows. Public synthetics: PassMark 1133, Fire Strike 1622.

FPS in games at 1080p

The capped quartet still tops the table — CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, GTA V and PUBG at 140 at the high preset, with League of Legends at 121. Everything after that is light-duty: Dota 2 and F1 2014 at 49, FIFA 18 at 44, FIFA 17 at 43, Valorant at 40, Fortnite at 36 and The Sims 4 at 36. The modern shelf collapses: Counter-Strike 2 posts 9, The Witcher 3 10, Cyberpunk 2077 5, Battlefield V 17, Forza Horizon 4 14, Resident Evil 4 Remake 3 and Metro Exodus 2.

Laptops that carry it

The 10 matched models are 2015–2017 mainstream and business machines: Lenovo's ThinkPad E470 at $207, T460 at $162, T470p at $319 and T570p at $259, IdeaPad 320 at $266, Dell's Latitude 5580 at $159, HP's Pavilion 15t at $309 and Pavilion 15 at $253, the Envy m7 at $345 and Lenovo's Yoga 500 convertible at $184. Roster medians: gaming index 12, overall score 28.5.

Bottom line

The 940M is a $100–$300-class laptop's badge, and that is the correct way to value it: as a small accelerator for a decade-old office or media machine, not as gaming hardware. The catalog's 27 compare articles against RTX chips put the gap in numbers — a 3050-class machine delivers multiples of this table everywhere it matters. If the machine around it is clean, cheap and intended for browsing, documents and media, the chip is irrelevant; anything more ambitious than Counter-Strike's predecessor era needs different silicon.